“I glanced over at my father. How changes he looked! His eyes were veiled. I wanted to tell him something, but I didn’t know what”…..”I too had become a different person. The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. All that was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had been invaded- and devoured- by a black flame.”
-Elie Wiesel, Night
I just finished reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel. This book is written just after WWII by a survivor of the Holocaust. It is a deeply emotional story and filled with pain and suffering. I would highly recommend it to everyone. Although we now live in the 21st Century, it would be just as wrong to forget about the Holocaust than to have been one of the minds behind it. Through this book, Wiesel is constantly arguing against people being robbed of their innocence. He tells the story of how his childhood and happiness were stolen from him to warn others. The passage above really stood out to me when I read it because it was so deep and sad and helpless. It broke my heart to read this book and read about that endless sufferings of innocent people. This quote took place when Wiesel and his father had just been put into a camp and he was just realizing what this meant for his life. The wrongs that are done to us could never compare to what was done to the Jews in WWII, but this story stand and many others like it stand as the best examples of situations in life where we can not be in control and that we are involuntarily placed in situations that can consume us and scar us in ways that we may never be able to repair.
there are much worse games to play 
